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It was nearly noon when a foreign ship was moored at the newly built wharf along the river outside Wuchang City, and soon the wooden trestle bridge was lively, and when the coolies on the wharf began to prepare for work, a package on the ship was directly handed over to the postman who had been waiting for a long time, which was a package sent from Hong Kong, Shanghai and other places. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Postman, for the current Huguang, can be said to be an extremely new profession, in fact, this is not new, after all, as early as the beginning of the establishment of the Governor's Office, has set up a post office, but at that time the post office to carry civil letters and similar to the civil letter bureau, it specializes in transporting official letters, including letters from volunteer officers and soldiers.

Although the post office was in charge of official letters at that time, but because of the entry of Guangdong bandits into Hubei led to the dispersion of the civil letter bureaus in half of the province, coupled with the civil letter bureau "too many people, the good and the bad are uneven, and there are many disadvantages", at the same time, in order to reduce costs, the post office began to undertake private letters, because it is more convenient than the civil letter bureau, so it is respected by businessmen. After several months of exploration, the post office followed the example of the West and built a postal network in Hubei and Hunan. Moreover, after completely changing to the Western post office method, not only can it save money, but the new style of postal service can also be convenient for officials and businessmen. Although the postal revenue is not high now, the subsidy of the Governor's Office is also decreasing.

Although this post office is currently limited to Hubei and Hunan, which are under the jurisdiction of the Han Governor's Office, it has quietly opened up an "underground mail route" to Shanghai and Hong Kong, and the parcels brought by foreign merchant ships from Shanghai are postal parcels sent from these two places.

However, only two or three hours later, the letters in the parcel "sent" from Shanghai were sorted out several times and began to be sent by the postman, most of which were sent to the governor's office, and in addition to the letters sent by various foreign firms, there were inevitably some private letters, including letters to his wife.

For Xu Lingyun, as the wife of the governor, she almost didn't ask about the outside world, but even so, she couldn't help but ask about family affairs, just like when she received the letter from her second uncle now, she glanced at it slightly, and her brows wrinkled. She looked at the foreign clock on the table, and it was already half past six in the afternoon.

"There should be nothing wrong now!"

Thinking like this in her heart, she took the letter and walked towards Xianggong's study, through the glass window of the study, she could see that Zhu Yifeng was looking at the book, looking at Xianggong with a focused expression, she sighed in her heart, in the past few months, he spent more time in the study, and now there is one more province in charge of the governor's office, in the future, I really don't know what he will be busy.

As a woman, she can't help her husband at all, and even her family ...... Thinking of her handling of that incident, Xu Lingyun's mind sank again, although it stands to reason that the matter of the inner house should be handled by her, the housewife, but will it be too "vicious".

After returning from Changsha, since he didn't say anything, he didn't even ask, but just hugged him tightly that night, and although he didn't speak, she could still feel the hurt he had suffered.

"There's a letter from the second uncle, take a look!"

Holding the letter, Xu Lingyun said with some unhappiness.

"I really don't know what you thought at the beginning, why did you have to send the second uncle to Hong Kong and take them to Wuchang, so you can save so much trouble!"

Putting down the "Huangzhou Mansion Chronicles" in his hand, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile:

"What, do they have any stories, let me see how to relieve my boredom?"

Thinking of his so-called second uncle, Zhu Yifeng was helpless, in order to avoid being killed by the Manchus, he deliberately sent them to Hong Kong, not only bought them a house in Hong Kong, but even sent 10,000 taels of silver. But even so, the two of them did not have a lord who stopped, and every once in a while, they would always write letters to ask for silver. And they always have one reason or another.

However, compared to letting them be in Hong Kong, Zhu Yifeng has never considered letting the two masters come to Wuchang, if they come to Wuchang, they don't know what trouble they will cause to themselves with their temper! Now that I am in the time of starting a business, I don't want to make any so-called "royal relatives" arrogant.

"That cousin of yours is sick with a dirty disease, and he's getting sick. See for yourself. ”

Xu Lingyun handed over the letter and said in an unhappy tone.

"The second uncle is now actually blaming you for this, saying that if you hadn't rebelled, how would they have left their hometown, how could Yitao have contracted that kind of dirty disease, and how could they be pointed out by foreigners in the newspaper, this person is really ......"

took the letter and looked at it, and saw that it was full of dissatisfaction with himself, and Zhu Yifeng's heart immediately swelled with a burst of displeasure:

"The two of them, they don't have enough success, and they have more than enough failures!"

Thinking that as soon as his second uncle learned that he was colluding with the "bandits", he was nervous all day long for fear that he would be affected, and later he just mentioned sending them to Hong Kong, so he agreed. If they live a peaceful life in Hong Kong, they will not treat them too poorly in the future, but they have repeatedly caused some trouble for themselves in Hong Kong. Now that cousin has syphilis and has even been stabbed in the newspaper.

"I'm working hard to fight the world here, but these two masters are so ridiculous, this matter has actually spread to the newspaper, it really deserves to be killed!"

Xianggong's words made Xu Lingyun's heart tremble slightly, and when he saw him so angry, he hurriedly comforted,

"Xianggong, they are your relatives after all, even if they are angry, they can't be like this......"

Xu Lingyun's comfort made Zhu Yifeng shake his head helplessly.

"What's the use of killing them, it's all in the newspapers!"

You don't have to think about it, Zhu Yifeng can think of what will be written in the newspaper.

"The brother of Zhu Yifeng, the governor of the Han army, was infected with syphilis."

For those reporters, there is no Zhu Yitao in their eyes, what they see is themselves!

"Without me, who cares who he is Zhu Yitao? My face fell, but he still had the face to talk about me! ”

After scolding a few words to vent his dissatisfaction, under Xu Lingyun's persuasion. Zhu Yifeng waved his hand again and said helplessly.

"That's it, you send them five thousand taels of silver, tell him, just let Yitao treat his illness with peace of mind, don't say anything else, he is not a stupid person, he can tell what is important!"

In addition to the helpless wry smile, for this relative, at least now Zhu Yifeng has no good way, and while complaining, he can't help but think that his cousin has syphilis, which is also a good thing, at least in this era, syphilis is equal to a terminal illness, so he will not wait for a few years to "dirty" his hands.

After all, even if some people don't kill now, they will inevitably kill them in the future! If you die, you can save some trouble!

Sighing like this in his heart, when he handed the letter to Xu Lingyun again, seeing that he seemed to be a little worried, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile.

"Lingyun, but his letter is a reminder to me, there are too many things these days, and I have to forget to do an important thing!"

"Big deal? Yifeng, what are you talking about? ”

"Newspapers!"

Raising his chin, Zhu Yifeng spit out two words.

"Newspapers?"

"That's right, even though I used to read some foreign newspapers when I was in Shanghai. But after the opening of Wuchang, he forgot to run a newspaper, this newspaper looks inconspicuous, but if it is done well, it is better than 100,000 troops! ”

More than a hundred thousand troops!

The role of a newspaper is not only to seize the ideological position, but also to enlighten the mind, especially in the current "great changes unseen in 3,000 years", the role of the newspaper is even heavier than guns, especially in the era of national ignorance, it is more necessary to enlighten and educate ideologically.

Especially now, close your eyes and think about the current situation of domestic conservatism, especially the relative isolation and conservatism of the overall cultural atmosphere in Hunan Province, in fact, this is also the current situation in China, and the conservatism of the Chinese people is based on their ignorance of the West, if they can understand the West and the world through newspapers, how can they be so conservative?

At least through the enlightenment education of the newspapers, some people will be able to open their eyes to the world, so that naturally there will not be too much resistance to the implementation of the "New Deal" in the future, at least there will be no such resistance as in history.

Although later generations summed up that the "Sino-Japanese War" and the "Gengzi War" completely shattered the illusions of the Chinese people, on the other hand, if there had not been the "enlightenment" of Chinese newspapers in Shanghai, Tianjin, and other places for more than ten years, how could the ideological progress of the Chinese people, and then the late Qing Dynasty opened the newspaper industry as enlightenment, and it fundamentally changed the shortcomings of the Chinese people's "arrogance", realized the gap between China and the West, and realized the disconnection between traditional culture and modern science. It's all brought by the newspapers.

"Victory over an army of 100,000? Are newspapers that important? ”

Xu Lingyun asked suspiciously.

"It is not only an army of 100,000 people, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is equal to a million heroes, this newspaper can propagate the nation, awaken the people's national outlook, establish their determination to drive complacency, and popularize science and civilization, so that the people will no longer be conservative and ignorant and do not know it, the key is whether the people of the country can learn from the West with the mentality of "embracing all rivers" in the future, the key is the mentality, if it is still the same as it is now, regarding Western science as a strange and ingenious skill, then how can we implement the New Deal in the future and seek to make the country rich and strong? ”

"Are newspapers really that important?"

"More important than that! Because newspapers can enlighten! ”

Right! It is enlightenment, if you talk about the greatest sorrow in China, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that it is that it has not been enlightened, let alone experienced ideological enlightenment. In contrast, the country thousands of kilometers away is undoubtedly lucky, at least a dozen years after its founding, a thinker came out as if God blessed the Meiji Restoration, but what about China?

This even affected the national fortunes of China and Japan in the coming decades, because the depth and limitations of a nation's best thinkers often represent the limits of what the nation could reach at that time, and their ideas play an extremely important role in guiding or limiting the nation.

Thinking of Japan, Zhu Yifeng thought of the letter he received from Shanghai a month ago, and his brows were furrowed.

"It's already the beginning of the country, and I don't have much time left......" (To be continued.) )